Billy George Chaney

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Aug 24, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Billy George Chaney, 86, of Inlet Oaks Village, Murrells Inlet, SC, went home to be with the Lord on August 21, 2008 at Georgetown Memorial Hospital, Georgetown, SC.

Mr. Chaney was born August 6, 1922 in Patterson Heights, and raised in New Brighton. He was a son of the late LeRoy and Permilla (Senior) Chaney. He was a U.S. Army veteran serving in Company B 376th Infantry during World War II. He was a retired millwright from Union Drawn Steel, Beaver Falls. Mr. Chaney enjoyed hunting and fishing.

He is survived by two stepsons and a daughter-in-law, James and Janice Tanner, New Brighton, and David Tanner, Rochester; three grandchildren, Jodi and Kevin Wagner, San Diego, CA; James and Eve Tanner, Bethel Park, and Jill and Josh Bender, Conway; three great-grandchildren, Julie and James Tanner, and Hayden Bender; a sister, Nellie Foehringer, Brighton Township; two sisters-in-law, Reva Roberts, Aliquippa, and Mary Jane Ketterer, New Brighton; a brother-in-law, Frank Matotek, Patterson Heights, and several nieces and nephews.

Mr. Chaney was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Margaret Chaney, on June 23, 2008; three brothers, Richard, Lee and Joe Chaney, and two sisters, Edie Matotek and Lois Oliver.

Friends will be received Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the SAUL-GABAUER FUNERAL HOME, INC., 273 Route 68, Rochester (adjacent to Sylvania Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum). His funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. Entombment will follow in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park Mausoleum.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army, Rochester.

Full military honors will be presented by members of the Beaver County Special Unit at 1:30 p.m. in the funeral home.

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